News Broadcasting
DPS Lamba joins Prasar Bharati as board member
NEW DELHI: D P S Lamba, a management professional with over 30 years senior level experience, has assumed charge as Member (Personnel) of Prasar Bharati.
As a full time member of the Prasar Bharati Board, Lamba will head the personnel and administrative activities of Prasar Bharati and its two constituents – Doordarshan and All India Radio. He has been appointed by the high powered selection committee headed by the Vice-President of India.
An MBA from the prestigious FMS, Delhi (Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University), Lamba also holds a degree in law from the Delhi University and specialised PG diplomas in Administrative Laws as well as Labour Laws from the Indian Law Institute.
He has worked in various Government and Public Sector Undertakings including – Bharat Heavy Electronics Ltd., Gas Authority of India Ltd., Engineers India and Cement Corporation of India at different positions at unit and corporate levels.
Prior to assuming the office of Member (Personnel), Prasar Bharati, Lamba, was Director-Personnel (a Member of the Board of Directors) of Tehri Hydro Development Corporation for over nine years. Besides his administrative responsibilities, Lamba has made tangible contributions in the field of rehabilitation and resettlement and environmental aspects of Tehri Dam project in Uttaranchal.
A widely traveled person, Lamba has visited, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Denmark, Malaysia and Singapore in the course of his professional pursuits. He is an associate member of All India Management Association (AIMA), New Delhi and a corporate member of National Institute of Personnel Management (NILM), Kolkata.
Lamba is the first Member (Personnel) to be appointed on the Prasar Bharati Board.
The present composition of the Board is M V Kamath, chairman; K S Sarma, CEO; Bhupen Hazarika, M L Mehta, Chitra Mudgal (all part time members), Vijay Singh, I & B ministry representative, Brijeshwar Singh, DG, AIR and Navin Kumar, DG : DD (both ex-officio members); S Sundresan, formerly, Member (Finance) retired on 18 March 2004, on attaining the age of 62.
News Broadcasting
Rajesh Sundaram joins NDTV Profit as senior editor, assignment
The 32-year newsroom veteran has launched channels on three continents and covered everything from 9/11 to South African television
MUMBAI: NDTV Profit has bolstered its newsroom with a hire who has done rather more than most. Rajesh Sundaram, a journalist with over three decades of editorial, managerial and consultative experience across India and international markets, joins as senior editor, assignment, tasked with sharpening the network’s newsgathering and real-time response.
Sundaram’s career reads like a tour of Indian media’s most formative moments. He began at Businessworld in 1994, moved to Zee News as bureau chief across Mumbai and Chennai, then joined NDTV in 2002 as part of its political bureau during a particularly febrile period in Indian politics. A stint as India correspondent for Al Jazeera International followed, where he covered key geopolitical developments and got his first serious taste of the global newsroom.
What sets Sundaram apart, however, is his serial channel-launching habit. At NewsX, he helped get the operation off the ground. At Headlines Today, part of the India Today Group, he served as editor. At News Nation, he helped launch the Hindi news channel and its digital ecosystem. He then crossed continents to lead the launch of ANN7 in South Africa as editor-in-chief, overseeing both television and digital. Back in India, he launched Tamil news channels News7 Tamil and Cauvery News, and later served as principal consultant for the launch of Marathi channel Lokshahi. Most recently, he helped build and lead the Press Trust of India’s video service and content studio, before stints consulting for Business Today and The Himalayan Times.
Rahul Kanwal, chief executive and editor-in-chief of NDTV, left little doubt about what Sundaram is expected to deliver. “The assignment desk is where a newsroom’s intent becomes action,” he said. “Rajesh brings a rare combination of field experience and leadership in building news operations at scale.”
Sundaram has reported from across India and the world, covering elections, civil conflicts, the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks and the 2008 US presidential election.
At NDTV Profit, he will lead the assignment desk, driving editorial coordination and real-time response across markets and breaking developments. For a business news network sharpening its focus on speed and multi-platform delivery, it has hired a man who has built newsrooms from scratch on three continents. The assignment desk is in good hands.
